Traduction de «vérification et assistance » (Français → Anglais) :

(3) Every applicant for a certificate shall, for the purpose of an audit or examination under this Act, give all reasonable assistance to any person authorized by the Minister to carry out the audit or examination, provide access to all relevant sites, answer, orally or in writing, as required, all questions relating to the audit or examination and provide all information and documentation in his possession and all copies required for the purpose of the audit or examination.

(13) In order to ensure that the Union's financial interests linked to macro-financial assistance are protected efficiently, the beneficiaries should take appropriate measures relating to the prevention of, and the fight against, fraud, corruption and any other irregularities linked to this assistance, and provision should be made for checks by the Commission and for audits by the Court of Auditors.

The proposal in question contains amendments to the definitions (Article 2 of the amended regulation), the scope (Article 3), to the rules on crossing of external borders (Article 4) and entry conditions for third country-nationals, including amendments (Article 5), border checks on persons at external borders (Article 7), separate lanes (Article 9), stamping of travel documents of third-country nationals (Article 10), the presumption as regards fulfilment of conditions of duration of stay for third country-nationals (Article 11), border surveillance (Article 12), refusal of entry (Article 13), implementation of border controls (Article 15), specific rules for border checks (Articles 18 and 19), checks within the territory where border cont ...[+++]rol at internal borders has been abolished (Article 21), as well as amendments as regards the Annexes and the committee assisting with the adoption of implementing acts (Articles 32 and 33), and notifications (Articles 34 and 35).

(31) In order to allow the Commission to fulfil its obligation to check the existence and proper functioning of management and inspection systems for Union expenditure in the Member States, provision should be made for checks by persons delegated by the Commission who should be able to request assistance from the Member States in their work. Such national provision should take into account the principle of proportionality, the level of confidence that exists as to the reliability of national control and management systems, and the overall effectiveness of the national controls in the checks that the Commission has carried out .

This includes assistance with elections, public sector reforms, public management reforms, the provision of legal and judicial expertise, assistance with financial audits, assistance with the reform and functioning of the Central Bank, tax reforms, and improving parliamentary engagement and oversight.

My personal opinion, with my experience from having attended a lot of audit committees in my career, would be that the audit committee should be able to seek counsel on any issues that it is having difficulties with.